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NFSA historian Graham Shirley gave a speech at the Powerhouse Museum about the NFSA's role in finding, restoring and preserving the classic Australian film.
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A portrait of the pioneering filmmakers, The McDonagh Sisters - Isabel, Paulette and Phyllis. NFSA Restores: The Cheaters screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival 2018.
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This excerpt from a 200-page scrapbook made by New Zealand-born actor Vera James is made up of magazine and newspaper clippings. Each chapter profiles a prominent actor of the time.
Many of the...
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An NFSA digital restoration of the silent version of The Cheaters (Paulette McDonagh, Australia, 1929). Completed in 2017.
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This film was the first venture by the McDonagh sisters: Paulette, director and principal writer; Phyllis (the youngest), business manager, publicist and art director; and Isabel, who acted under the...
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A scene from the NFSA Restores digital restoration of The Man From Kangaroo (1919). Directed by Wilfred Lucas and starring Reg L 'Snowy' Baker.
After two thieves attack and rob a wealthy farmer, John...
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The NFSA has completed a digital restoration of The Sword of Valor (Duke Worne, USA, 1924), starring Snowy Baker as an American sailor who falls in love with the daughter (Dorothy Revier) of a...
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An advertisement for an Australian screening of A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916).
The three-hour epic featuring Annette Kellerman screened at the St George's Theatre in Yarraville...
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A publicity still of Annette Kellerman from the lost film A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916). Kellerman is credited with being the first woman to appear nude in a film.
When she spoke...
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Variety called Annette Kellerman 'The Diving Venus' in 1909. Kellerman had moved to America in 1907 to perform her vaudeville act.
This evocative publicity still comes from her time as a silent film...